Kickball event leads to a $26,000 donation!

How did we miss this?!  In September 2008 the Kyle Korver Foundation sponsored a 25-hour kickball game marathon with the goal of raising $10,000 for the Helping Hand Rescue Mission in North Philadelphia.  To accomplish this great goal each team had a roster of 20 players with at least four males and females be on the field at all times.  Also, players were allowed to substitute and rest, but the game will be played continually for more than 24 hours.  Insane.

The result? Try this…

Kyle Korver Foundation » Korver’s agent Jeff Schwartz advised him to start a foundation to “streamline” his giving. He runs it with the help of family members, which Korver said is part of the appeal to having his own foundation. His mother, Laine, is a vice president and his brother Klayton also is involved.

He so far has helped raise $25,000 each of the past two summers for a Boys and Girls Club in a minority neighborhood in north Omaha, Neb., where he played college basketball at Creighton. That money enabled the club to buy three vans in 2007 and cover the spike in gas prices last summer. He hosted a golf fundraiser in Omaha, and held a kickball marathon last summer in Philadelphia with friends he made while playing for the 76ers.

“The dream is to kind of keep on growing it,” Korver said, “to bring in more friends and more family, more people that we enjoy, so we can all work together and just bless people.”

Schwartz advised Korver to start the foundation now and increase his involvement after his playing career. Korver is launching a T-shirt line, with the proceeds going to his foundation.

Korver’s foundation is not yet required to file tax records, but his donations were confirmed through the beneficiaries. The kickball event led to a $26,000 donation to a Philadelphia rescue mission in the hopes of eventually starting an after-school program. Read more here.